The legal boundaries of the Game Management Units are described in the last pages of the Big Game Regulations Brochure​​​. Hunters can sketch out specific units on the topography maps.​

The Colorado Hunting Atlas

The Colorado Hunting Atlas allows users to view big game concentrations and game management units on top of street maps, USGS topographic maps or high resolution color aerial photography. The Hunter Resource Report allows hunters to create a list of important emergency and contact information, field office locations, campgrounds, CDOW license agents and more.

Hunting Property and Program pages with Maps

Fishing

​​​​​​The Colorado Fishing Atlas

Whether you’re a seasoned angler or you’ve never picked up a rod before, finding a place to fish in Colorado has never been easier!
The Colorado Fishing Atlas, the lates​t interactive mapping tool offered by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, allows users to search for
fishing opportunities by
species,
specific interest or
proximity to your home or destination. Use the simple map interface to locate and view recommended opportunities for the family, remote fly fishing or ice fishing all on top of street maps, USGS topographic maps or high resolution color aerial photography.

Special Fishing Regulation maps​​

Browse and download our PDF maps that help anglers navigate the special regulations on some of Colorado's popular river, streams and lakes. These
CPW Special Fishing Regulations maps​ depict special fishing rules for the areas listed below. We will be adding new maps in the future, so bookmark and return to this page before your next outing! ​​

Outdoors Recreation​​​​

​Parks

Trails

Administrative​​​​

Getting started with GeoPDF maps

We are beginning to integrate GeoPDF features into our map products. Users can download Geospatial PDF maps and bring up coordinates on your computer at home. Using the geospatial location tool within Adobe Acrobat or Reader you can access lat/lon information.

Smartphone Users

You can also download apps for Android or Apple iPhone that access latitude/longitude coordinates within the PDF and perform GPS based mapping functions.

GIS Data

​​The Colorado Parks and Wildlife ​G​IS Unit now distributes data on the ArcGIS.com website. You can find our GIS data by searching ‘GROUPS’ for ‘Colorado Parks and Wildlife’ or by following this link to Colorado Parks and Wildlife on ArcGIS.com.​​

About CPW GIS

The CPW GIS Unit is part of the Research, Planning, and Policy Branch of Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Our goal is to provide a wide range of GIS products, technical support and consultation relating to geographic and spatial data to all Branches and Sections in the Colorado Parks & Wildlife. Specifically:

​​CPW’s Geographic Information Systems Unit will provide state of the art analysis of spatial information to the agency.

GIS will provide technical support to CPW through the collection of spatial data, the analysis of data and by providing maps and web enabled mapping applications.

The GIS Unit will obtain and apply GIS data to develop knowledge that contributes to the understanding and management of wildlife and parks resources.

As the demand for high quality data and information about natural resources and recreational opportunities increases, the GIS Unit will develop a system to prioritize and deliver information.

The GIS Unit will provide technical and software support to the 100 plus employees of CPW who have GIS software on their respective computers.

GIS will provide the primary GIS database management service, including the more complex analysis and map production.

The GIS Unit will provide map standards and is the primary point of contact with outside agencies and the public on CPW GIS data.

​The GIS Unit will coordinate with the Department of Natural Resources on department-wide initiatives.